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I have seen the future of America — in a pastrami sandwich in Queens
San Wei, which serves pastrami sandwiches along with churros and biang biang noodles, represents an immigrant's fulfillment of the American dream
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Ernest Hemingway was a great writer. He was also an antisemite
How do we grapple with the remarks the author made in his fiction and in his correspondence?
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In Satmar Williamsburg, even the Legos wear yarmulkes
Frieda Vizel left the Satmar world at 25 — but she still visits twice a week to give tours of Hasidic Williamsburg
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A Neil Diamond show heads to Broadway. Just don’t call it a jukebox musical
'A Beautiful Noise' chronicles the superstar's triumphs but doesn't shy away from his struggles
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Film & TV The very Jewish history of Comic-Con
Held in New York in 1964, the first comic convention was the brainchild of 5 Jewish teenagers
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Who serves the best kosher pizza in NYC? We found out
We regret to inform you that at least one Ashkenazi digestive tract was harmed during this investigation
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He wrote a beloved prayer book. But his gravestone misspelled his name.
Philip Birnbaum, who died in 1988, was a man careful with language, yet a stone of eight words had three errors
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Film & TV Were the Three Stooges a lot more Jewish than we realized?
There’s a lot more to the comic trio’s Jewishness than the Yiddish they inserted in their skits
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Film & TV Why a show about ‘The Godfather’ is the best Jewish TV right now
‘The Offer,’ a miniseries on the making of Francis Ford Coppola's masterpiece, emphasizes Jewish resonances in an iconic immigrant tale
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Using previously unknown photographs, a new Holocaust documentary demands to be seen
In ‘From Where They Stood,’ harrowing images were taken by the concentration camp prisoners themselves
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Should Ivanka Trump sit shiva for her (non-Jewish) mother?
Ivana Trump died at age 73 on Thursday. Her death raises questions about the Jewish laws governing mourning practices for converts.
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In Paris, 80 years after a shocking atrocity, forgetting is another form of extermination
The infamous 1942 roundup was part of a plan to deport more than 23,000 of France's Jews
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